NEW YORK: In a setback to a growing field of outsourcing, the New York City Department of Education has virtually prohibited US companies from hiring teachers from other countries, including India, arguing it was not possible to undertake their background checks in foreign states.

A controversy had been raging for quite sometime as to whether US companies can employ teachers in other countries to tutor American children.

The companies planning distant learning had argued that since the student and teacher do not come into contact, do not talk with each other and as everything is done on computers, the background checks are unnecessary.

But the officials did not agree as the rules provided that teachers must give their finger prints and social security numbers, the latter which only American educators can give.

~snip~ As a result, the New York authorities cancelled the $2 million a year contract of a Texas-based Indian American owned company Socratic Learning Inc which, the Educations Department said had employed 250 teachers in India and was expected to tutor some 2,000 children.

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